New paper! Accepted at Perspectives on Psychological Science. A textbook finding in infant psychology is that newborns - within ~1 hour of birth - visually track a simplified 'three blob' facelike stimulus further than its inverted control (see picture). This suggested inborn knowledge of faces!

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Developmental science is no different. Thousands of hours of work to get to this conclusion: "In sum, scaling our sample sizes is helpful but insufficient. Resolving measurement challenges might require improving current paradigms or even developing new ones." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Picture reaching for something on a high shelf and coming up short. You don’t give up; instead, you find a stool, carry it over, and climb up. Something remarkable: You held the goal in your mind, identified what you needed, and executed a plan. No training required. www.science.org/content/arti...

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If you can spare ~20 min on an online study on perception & #mentalimagery please consider participating: #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence tstbl.co/131-782

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Butterbutt. An older comic.

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